Germany

In Bavaria, beer is officially considered a food and Germans are the second largest consumers in the world. Germany boasts 1300 beer breweries with 5000 kinds of beer. To order a beer, Germans use their thumb instead of their index finger

The longest word published in the German language is Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (79 letters, meaning subordinate officials of the head office of the Danube steamboat electrical services). The longest technical word in English describes a family of proteins (189,819 letters, “titin” for short), and the longest non-technical word is the 34-letter “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”

The term “ecology” was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866. Austria, Switzerland and Germany are the world’s most conscientious recyclers

When answering the phone, Germans use their surname as a greeting instead of “Hi” or “Hello”